William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet, 1770–1850. 2 explained quotes.
“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
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“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth · Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (Lyrical Ballads) · 1798 · Poet
The best part of a good person's life is not their big achievements but the small, everyday kindnesses that nobody records and they themselves forget.
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“The Child is father of the Man.”
William Wordsworth · “My Heart Leaps Up” (“The Rainbow”), Poems in Two Volumes · 1802 · Poet
The person we are as children shapes the adult we become. Wordsworth hopes his grown-up self will keep the wonder he felt as a child seeing a rainbow.
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About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth grew up in England’s Lake District, and its hills and lakes run through his poetry. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge he published Lyrical Ballads (1798), which helped launch English Romanticism. He was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death.
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- “I wandered lonely as a cloud”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Poems in Two Volumes, 1807